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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Craig Spence.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ tags:
   - 1980s
   - Prostitution
   - White_House
-summary: "Craig Spence was a Washington D.C. lobbyist and social figure whose connections to a homosexual escort service and late-night White House tours were independently documented by the Washington Times and Washington Post in June-November 1989. He was found dead at the Boston Ritz Carlton on November 10, 1989, in a death ruled a suicide."
+summary: "Craig Spence was a Washington D.C. lobbyist whose connections to a homosexual escort service and unauthorized late-night White House tours were documented by the Washington Times and Washington Post in 1989, before his death on November 10, 1989, ruled a suicide, at the Boston Ritz Carlton."
 died: 1989-11-10
 location: "Washington, D.C."
 ---

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Isabelle Pettie.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
   - The_Finders
   - Washington_DC
   - Cold_War
-summary: "Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee and the late wife of Marion Pettie, leader of The Finders. FBI Vault documents confirm her CIA employment and her possession of passports to Cold War restricted destinations including North Korea, North Vietnam, and the Soviet Union. The Stitcher MPD report cited her employment period as 1950 to 1971."
+summary: "Isabelle Pettie was a CIA employee (1950-1971) and wife of Finders leader Marion Pettie, confirmed by FBI Vault documents that also record her possession of passports to Cold War restricted destinations including North Korea, North Vietnam, and the Soviet Union."
 location: "Washington, D.C."
 ---
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John H. Stitcher Jr..md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
   - The_Finders
   - Washington_DC
   - 1980s
-summary: "John H. Stitcher Jr. was a Metropolitan Police Department Intelligence Division sergeant who filed the key February 19, 1987 report documenting CIA acknowledgment of a 'vested interest' in The Finders. He died in May 1993, five months before the DOJ formally reopened its investigation, rendering him unavailable as a witness."
+summary: "John H. Stitcher Jr. was the MPD Intelligence Division sergeant who filed the February 19, 1987 report documenting CIA acknowledgment of a 'vested interest' in The Finders, and who died in May 1993 before the DOJ reopened its investigation in October of that year."
 born: 1945
 died: 1993-05-28
 location: "Washington, D.C."

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/John Poindexter.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Poindexter resigned on November 25, 1986, the same day North was fired, after At
 
 ### Congressional Testimony and Criminal Proceedings
 
-Poindexter testified before the joint congressional [[Iran-Contra Affair|Iran-Contra]] committees under a grant of immunity in July 1987. He stated that he had authorized the diversion of funds and had not told [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] about it. He said he made the decision himself because he did not want to place the President in the position of having approved an operation that violated the [[Boland Amendmen]]'s prohibition on Contra assistance. This testimony was the central account of executive branch knowledge and authorization in the entire Iran-Contra affair.[^1]
+Poindexter testified before the joint congressional [[Iran-Contra Affair|Iran-Contra]] committees under a grant of immunity in July 1987. He stated that he had authorized the diversion of funds and had not told [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] about it. He said he made the decision himself because he did not want to place the President in the position of having approved an operation that violated the [[Boland Amendment]]'s prohibition on Contra assistance. This testimony was the central account of executive branch knowledge and authorization in the entire Iran-Contra affair.[^1]
 
 Independent Counsel [[Lawrence Walsh]] indicted Poindexter in March 1988 on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of Congress, making false statements, and destroying documents. The case was tried in 1990 after North's conviction. Poindexter was convicted on five counts in April 1990 and sentenced to six months in prison.[^2]
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Poindexter's conviction in November 1
 
 ### Total Information Awareness
 
-In 2002, the [[George H.W. Bush|Bush]] administration appointed Poindexter to direct the Information Awareness Office at [[DARPA]], a research program focused on mining large-scale databases for intelligence indicators. The office developed the Total Information Awareness (TIA) system, which proposed aggregating commercial, government, and intelligence databases to identify patterns predictive of terrorist activity.
+In 2002, the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] administration appointed Poindexter to direct the Information Awareness Office at [[DARPA]], a research program focused on mining large-scale databases for intelligence indicators. The office developed the Total Information Awareness (TIA) system, which proposed aggregating commercial, government, and intelligence databases to identify patterns predictive of terrorist activity.
 
 When TIA became publicly known in late 2002, it generated intense opposition from civil liberties organizations and members of Congress, who argued that the system constituted a mass domestic surveillance infrastructure. Poindexter's own Iran-Contra history - including his conviction and its reversal - was cited repeatedly in the congressional debate over TIA. Poindexter resigned from DARPA in August 2003, and Congress terminated TIA funding.[^1]
 

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Marion Pettie.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ tags:
   - Military
   - The_Finders
   - Washington_DC
-summary: "Marion David Pettie (1920-2003) was the founder and leader of The Finders, a Washington D.C.-based communal group investigated in 1987 for child trafficking connections. A retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant with family ties to the CIA and Air America, Pettie served as the group's 'Game Caller' for approximately three decades."
+summary: "Marion Pettie (1920-2003) was the founder and 'Game Caller' of The Finders communal group, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant with family CIA connections whose group was investigated for child trafficking in 1987 before the federal inquiry was closed after CIA acknowledged an interest."
 born: 1920
 died: 2003-10-24
 location: "Washington, D.C. / Culpeper, Virginia"

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Richard Ober.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ tags:
   - Cold_War
   - 1960s
   - 1970s
-summary: "Richard Ober (c.1921-2001) was a CIA counterintelligence officer who served as director of Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) from its creation in August 1967 through its formal termination in March 1974. He reported to James Jesus Angleton, was given a covert White House office with access to Nixon administration principals, and was seconded to the National Security Council after CHAOS was exposed. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University."
+summary: "Richard Ober (c.1921-2001) was the CIA officer who directed Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) from its 1967 creation through its 1974 termination, reporting to James Angleton and maintaining a covert White House office with access to Nixon administration principals."
 born: 1921-01-01
 died: 2001-09-11
 location: "Fairfax Station, Virginia"